Ketamine does not decrease postoperative pain after remifentanil-based anaesthesia for tonsillectomy in adults

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 756-760

  Van Elstraete, Alain C ^a,b   Lebrun, T ^a   Sandefo, I ^a   Polin, B ^a  

^a Department of Anaesthesiology   (Martinique)

^b Department of Anesthesiology   (Martinique)

Author keywords

Anaesthetic: i.v. ketamine; Analgesics: opioid, remifentanil, tolerance; Pain: postoperative; Receptors, amino acid; Surgery: otolaryngological, tonsillectomy

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; KETAMINE; MORPHINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DROWSINESS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG USE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NAUSEA; NOCICEPTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEDATION; TONSILLECTOMY; URINE RETENTION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHESIA, INTRAVENOUS; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; KETAMINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PIPERIDINES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TIME FACTORS; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 3042535671     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2004.00399.x     Document Type: Article

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